This page is just for people who for whatever reason (perhaps have been tagged with introducing me) need either a CV or a brief bio.  If it were me, I would to back to the interesting pages as fast as possible by clicking on the left. 

My CV, in more or less academic style, is attached.

Brief Bio

Lant Pritchett is currently Lead Socio-Economist in the Social Development group of the South Asia region of the World Bank, resident in Delhi.

He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics.

After leaving MIT Lant joined the World Bank, where has has held a number of positions in research complex, including as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President, and in the Bank's Operations in Indonesia and in India. 

From 2000 to 2004 Lant was on leave from the World Bank and was a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and in 2004 was Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID degree program there.   

Lant's career as a economic researcher and development practitioner has produced three kinds of outputs.  He has been a co-author and team member in producing books by the World Bank, including two World Development Reports (Infrastructure in 1994, and Making Services World for Poor People in 2004), Assessing Aid:  What Works, What Doesn't and Why in 1998, Better Health Systems fro India’s Poor:  Findings, Analysis, and Options in 2003, and most recently Economic Growth in the 1990s:  Learning from a Decade of Reforms in 2005.

In addition he has authored (alone or with one of his 22 co-authors) over 50 individually signed papers in refereed journals, chapters in books, or articles, as least some of which are widely cited and he was (inordinately) pleased when his Google count (easy to do when one's name is unique) passed 10,000.  He has published widely in economics journals and in specialized journals on demography, education, and health.

Finally, he has been engaged in policy dialogue and projects with governments and civil society around the world, both with the World Bank and as a consultant while at Harvard.

Lant, an American national, was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise Idaho.  Perhaps because of this, he has worked in, or traveled to, over forty countries, spanning every region of the world (most recently Afghanistan).  He has lived in Argentina (1978-80), Indonesia (1998-2000) and is currently living in India (since 2004). 

He speaks English reasonably good, Spanish passably, Bahasa Indonesia pathetically, and remembers almost none of his college Arabic.  

Lant has been married since 1981 to Diane Tueller Pritchett and together they have three children, Hannah, Lukas, and Isaac.

And nothing else. 

[Some bios list non-family and non-professional accomplishments like climbing Everest or playing the cello making is seems as if all of the rest was just tossed off.  I believe the only point of this is to make the rest of us, who collapse on the couch and watch Friends reruns at the end of the day, feel like slackers.  I think getting the above done while being a father to three great children and maintaining a strong marriage has been plenty.]